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Despite damaging her car on a restart and losing the cooling system in her helmet, pole sitter Natalie Decker managed to maneuver her way through several wrecks and finish fifth in her Daytona International Speedway debut.

Self pulled away from the field on a third and final one-lap shootout. He stayed out front without any challenges and won the three-plus-hour race to kick off Speedweeks.

Self was one of three Venturini Motorsports entries to finish in the top five. Teammates Tom Hessert and Natalie Decker finished fourth and fifth, respectively.

Willie Mullins was second, followed by Sheldon Creed.

Gus Dean started the first multi-car wreck in the final laps. Dean ran into the No. 23 car driven by Bret Holmes, turning it sideways and into traffic. The nose of Mark Thompson's No. 66 got under Holmes' car and flipped it onto its side. Holmes slid at least 100 yards on the side of his car, with the driver's side door scraping the asphalt.

Safety workers turned the car back onto all four tires, and Holmes climbed out and headed to the infield care center. He was checked and released along with everyone else involved in the wreck.

Creed was leading and appeared on his way to the victory when more chaos started.

Creed led the field to the start-finish line for the second, one-lap shootout and was up front when the leaders started crashing. He flattened a tire in that one and had to pit before the final restart.

Creed and three others running up front -- Sean Corr, Travis Braden and Thomas Praytor -- all wrecked to set up the final, one-lap shootout that gave Self his second ARCA victory.